Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
Michael S{\o}rensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14389 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14…
Nielsen numbers of $n$-valued maps on infra-solvmanifolds
Karel Dekimpe, Lore De Weerdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13438 https://arxi…
Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…
Condition Monitoring with Machine Learning: A Data-Driven Framework for Quantifying Wind Turbine Energy Loss
Emil Marcus Buchberg, Kent Vugs Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13012
Improving Online Bin Covering with Little Advice
Andrej Brodnik, Bengt J. Nilsson, Gordana Vujovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09004 https://
Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.
Die re:publica hat dem Boomer Stefan emotional und inhaltlich eine Menge gebracht. Sie hat mir Mut gemacht, da sich viele junge Menschen engagieren. Doch natürlich sind da auch Fragen und Sorgen. Der besonders persönliche Teil 3 meiner #rp25-Impressionen.
Quantum cosmological perturbations in bouncing models with mimetic dark matter
Idaiane L. Machado, D\^eivid R. da Silva, Nelson Pinto-Neto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06901
Polarized Neutrons at ISIS: Recent Developments And Highlights
Polly Mitchell, Holly I. Barnfield, Mark Devonport, Kirill Nemkovski, G{\o}ran J. Nilsen, Peter Galsworthy, Gavin B. G. Stenning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05148
Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.